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Girl with a pearl earring
Girl with a pearl earring
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Movie Titles (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G2
Location: Home (Stanford,CA)
Date: Jan 9, 2005
Galleries: Portraiture, Studio
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2005

 I am submitting this in order to learn something from the comments (hopefully they'll be there :)).
Taken with natural window lighting, levels, hue-saturation and brightness contrast layers. How I wish this were an Advanced Editing challenge, there's so many things I wanted to fix!

This was meant to be a full head shot resembling Vermeer's original painting, which is why the (partially visible) headgear. But I decided this was a more effective crop, so here it is.

Many thanks to sgauria for his help in taking this picture :). And yay to me for putting my mug out here in this almost invisible, but funny headgear :)

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 328
Avg (all users): 6.4853
Avg (commenters): 7.5294
Avg (participants): 6.2132
Avg (non-participants): 6.6667
Views since voting: 1739
Views during voting: 458
Votes: 340
Comments: 23
Favorites: 2 (view)

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 02/17/2005 05:36:32 AM
very nice& ilove it,both of them:this portrait & this girl!
 01/29/2005 05:03:31 PM
What a beautiful shot. It is in my mind one of the best portraits on this site. I have marked it as a favorite.
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 01/19/2005 08:21:34 AM
I think you're stunning. Nice to see a photographer going out on a limb and putting themselves in front of the lens instead of staying behind it! This was one of my favourites, definetly thought it should have been higher. But, hey, what do I know?
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 01/18/2005 07:22:29 PM
Congratulations on your 14th finish. Thgis should have been a top 5.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/17/2005 11:51:15 PM
I'd like to see a suggestion of her ear as well.
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 01/17/2005 12:46:18 PM
Not sure what to say apart from great portrait.
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 01/15/2005 05:51:38 PM
it's not even a pearl?
 01/15/2005 01:16:49 PM
ncie portrait
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 01/14/2005 01:25:26 PM
beautiful woman, lovely photo.
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 01/14/2005 01:16:44 PM
very nice. top 10
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 01/14/2005 01:12:01 AM
Wonderful portrait!! One of my favorite pictures in this challenge
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 01/13/2005 06:52:23 PM
Nice portrait. Good composition
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 01/13/2005 01:32:17 PM
Great movie. Nicely done.
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 01/13/2005 11:55:52 AM
As a composition and idea it is great, but...
This is about a girl with a pearl earring and while you follow Vermeer's way of lighting (the opposite site of the face facing the window light) I feel that there is not enough light on the left side of the face. The contrast between the left side and the right side is a bit too strong.
Again, like Vermeer, the light in the eyes is at the outside of the pupils, but it might have worked better a little bit more inward.
I have rated this a 9 because it is still a nice portrait and you follow Vermeer's lighting actually. But for my feeling it misses that liitle bit extra, else it might have been a 10.
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 01/13/2005 08:07:51 AM
i just love it
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 01/12/2005 07:52:30 PM
I should go to the cinema more often, don't remember hearing about this movie! But this photo is good, very pretty face
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 01/12/2005 05:25:29 PM
Very nice. I really like your lighting here. Cool how you've brought out the earring from the dark. Like the composition. Great expression on your model. Awesome job, one of my favorites.
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 01/12/2005 01:13:58 PM
that's gorgeous! it's very emotive, with the girl easily conveying the struggle to take things one day at a time. also, that earring just floating in the shadow of her face immediately calls attention to it.
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 01/12/2005 08:57:05 AM
Great picture (9)
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 01/12/2005 01:22:52 AM
Terrific. And I think the fabric (shawl?) adds to the image. Nice lighting and very thoughtful composition. 8.
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 01/11/2005 08:42:14 PM
not bad 9
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 01/11/2005 08:20:48 PM
I like it.
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 01/11/2005 08:09:50 PM
What captivating eyes and such a lovely face done full justice with your talent.
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